This post will show you how to set up Autofac Dependency Injection in a brand new ASP.NET Core project, and really it applies to any project running on the ASP.NET Core, not just MVC6.
VERSION WARNING: This was written for ASP.NET Core 1.0.0-rc1-final.
This code will be updated as new versions come out. If it doesn’t work for your version, please tweet me to get it updated.
Required Packages
At the moment there’s just one. Go ahead and install this nuget package into each of your projects:
Startup.cs
Next, let’s build our services container and tell ASP.NET to use it.
// This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to add services to the container.
public IServiceProvider ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
// Add framework services.
services.AddEntityFramework()
.AddSqlServer()
.AddDbContext<ApplicationDbContext>(options =>
options.UseSqlServer(Configuration["Data:DefaultConnection:ConnectionString"]));
services.AddIdentity<ApplicationUser, IdentityRole>()
.AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>()
.AddDefaultTokenProviders();
services.AddMvc();
// Add application services.
services.AddTransient<IEmailSender, AuthMessageSender>();
services.AddTransient<ISmsSender, AuthMessageSender>();
var builder = new ContainerBuilder();
builder.RegisterModule<DataModule>();
builder.RegisterType<SeedDataService>().As<ISeedDataService>();
builder.Populate(services);
var container = builder.Build();
return container.Resolve<IServiceProvider>();
}
Let’s break down what’s happening here:
- You have to change the return type from
voidtoIServiceProvider. This lets ASP.NET know to use your container instead of the built in one. - Entity Framework, Identity and MVC are added using the built in methods. Note that the context is set up as
InstancePerRequestfor you. - I’ve left the transient email and sms sender services there just to show you that you can mix the built-in container and your own. (Thanks to builder.Populate).
- You register your services with Autofac as normal, except you also use
builder.Populate()to add any services that were added to the built-in container. - Build the container and return an instance of
IServiceProviderback to ASP.NET.
That’s it. Simples eh?
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